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   "text": "The tight coupling of minority stakes, under which all reputation staked on the losing outcome is slashed in its entirety by burning or redistribution, is the source of the mechanism's incorruptibility.",
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   "text": "Tight coupling creates an exponential penalty for contrarian positions, since a participant staking ten percent of reputation against consensus risks total loss of that stake while correct majority stakers receive newly minted fractional REP proportional to their contribution.",
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   "text": "In the worked numerical example, a single incorrect high-conviction bet costs the dissenting expert seventy five percent of his governance influence, demonstrating the severity of tight coupling.",
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   "text": "Pilot deployments in 2024 and 2025 show major amendments completing from proposal to binding integration in under ten days, which the author presents as measured performance of tight coupling when participants have economic and reputational skin-in-the-game.",
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